Istio weekly newsletter < June 5th>

[shwsingh]

Important dates (refer slides for other milestones)

Releases

• 1.6.1 released
• 1.6 retrospective
  • Release management [Completed]
  • Environment [Completed]
  • Networking [Completed]
  • Security [Completed]
  • User experience - [Completed]
  • Docs - [Completed]
  • T&R - [Completed]
  • Policy & Telemetry - [Completed]
• 1.7 release date : 11th Aug

Needs attention

• Feature coverage: current feature coverage is 0% however 3 design docs are approved.
  • Please add the test plans to the approved design docs
• [Costin, Neeraj] Weekly status for Networking not complete [Status: Red]
• Feature coverage column missing information for
  • Networking [Costin, Neeraj]
  • User experience [Ed, Mitch]
  • T&R [Brian, Francois, Eric]
  • Security [Oliver, Limin, Lizan]
  • Telemetry [Mandar, Douglas]
• Documentation required missing information
  • Networking [Costin, Neeraj]
  • T&R [Brian, Francois, Eric]
  • Security [Oliver, Limin, Lizan]
• Github issue number information missing
  • Networking [Costin, Neeraj]
  • Security [Oliver, Limin, Lizan]

Docs reviewed & discussed

• Add help message to makefile

• CLI Troubleshooting under Central Istiod

• PR for proxystatus

• Mixer Removal Plan

• Istio metric “istio_requests_total” does not include the requests in flight · Issue #23672 · istio/istio

• Feature coverage framework (example)

• UX for multi-control plane upgrade (issue)

• Control plane gateway example

• Communication between istioctl and central istiod

• RFC: Istio Multi Tenancy

• Remove health plugin and management cluster

• Citadel managed secret formats are not supported in Gateway resource

• Possible alternative for DNS certs for workloads

• Update istio sha for tests to current master from release-1.6

• updated test framework.

• Istio.io Testing Boilerplate Simplification

Bookkeeping

• Weekly status 1.7 release

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